Botanical Glossary
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[edit] A
[edit] achene
- a small, dry, indehiscent fruit, containing a single seed; called a naked seed by the earlier botanists[B]
[edit] acicular
- slender and pointed, needle-like[E]
[edit] acuminate
- long-pointed, prolonged into a narrow, tapering point in a concave manner[A]
- tapering to a long point[E]
[edit] acute
- ending in a sharp, but not prolonged point[A]
[edit] adventitious root system
- the opposite of a tap root system, usually formed by thin, moderately branching roots growing from the stem (also called fibrous root system)[C]
[edit] aerial root
- any plant root that grows from a stem above ground[B]
[edit] aggregate fruit
- develops from a flower with numerous simple pistils such as the raspberry, whose simple fruits are termed drupelets because each is like a small drupe attached to the receptacle.[1]
[edit] alternate
- leaf attachments singular at nodes, and leaves alternate direction, to a greater or lesser degree, along the stem[A]
[edit] ament
- a deciduous, spike-like structure with scaly bracts that is unisexual and the flowers do not have petals[D]
[edit] annual
- a plant that usually germinates, flowers and dies in one year; true annuals will only live longer than a year if they are prevented from setting seed; some seedless plants can also be considered annuals even though they do not flower[2]
[edit] anther
[edit] arachnoid
- with many fine, entangled hairs giving a cobwebby appearance[A]
[edit] arachnose
- with many fine, entangled hairs giving a cobwebby appearance[A]
[edit] areole
[edit] aril
- a fleshy covering of certain seeds formed from the funiculus (attachment point of the seed) as noted in yews[C]
[edit] arillus
- a fleshy covering of certain seeds formed from the funiculus (attachment point of the seed) as noted in yews[C]
[edit] auriculate
- ear-shaped[A]
[edit] aristate
- ending in a stiff, bristle-like point[E]
[edit] autogamous
- self-fertilizing [B]
[edit] axillary bud
[edit] B
[edit] barbellae
- finely barbed hairs[A]
[edit] barbellate
[edit] bark
- the outermost layer of stems and roots of woody plants such as trees. It overlays the wood and consists of three layers, the cork, the phloem, and the vascular cambium[C]
[edit] basal rosette
- ground level ring of leaves (single or multiple layers) around the plant's central stem where it joins the roots[3]; a growth habit typical of biennials in the first year[4]
[edit] bast
[edit] bearded
- with long, stiff hairs[A]
[edit] berries
- see berry
[edit] berry
[edit] biennial
- a flowering plant that takes two years to complete its lifecycle[5]
[edit] bipinnate
- a pinnate leaf where each leaflet is also pinnate[E]
[edit] bloom
- a white or bluish covering on fruit such as plums or grapes; once thought to be wild yeast cells, it is now known to be waxy coverings to the epithelial cells of the fruit, presumably intended to provide some protection from environmental damage[C]
- a blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud[B]
[edit] bract
- a modified or specialized leaf, from the axil of which a flower or flower stalk arises[C]
- any leaf associated with an inflorescence[C]
[edit] bracteole
[edit] bractlet
[edit] branch
- any woody structural member that is usually connected to but not part of the central trunk[C]
[edit] bristly
- with stiff hair-like prickles[A]
[edit] bud
- an undeveloped or embryonic shoot that normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of the stem[C]
[edit] bulb
- an underground vertical shoot that has modified leaves (or thickened leaf bases) that is used as food storage organs by a dormant plant[C]
[edit] burr
- a seed or dry fruit in which the seeds bear hooks or teeth which attach themselves to fur or clothing of passing animals or people, such as burdock[C]
[edit] buttress root
[edit] C
[edit] calyx
[edit] calyx tube
[edit] canescent
- hoary with dense grayish-white pubescence[A]
[edit] capsule
- seed-case[B]
[edit] carpel
- one of the individual female reproductive organs in a flower, composed of an ovary, a style, and a stigma, although some flowers have carpels without a distinct style[B]
[edit] catkin
- slim, cylindrical clusters of unisexual flowers that are wind-pollinated and without petals[C]
- a soft spike or raceme, composed of small unisexual flowers; after flowering is finished the catkin normally falls away as one unit[D]
[edit] cauliflory
- plants which flower and fruit from their main stems or woody trunks rather than from new growth and shoots[C]
[edit] chaff
- the inedible parts of a plant whose seeds are eaten as grain[B]
- receptacular bracts of many species in the sun flower family Asteraceae[C]
[edit] cilia
- short hairs especially on the margins[A]
[edit] ciliate
[edit] ciliolate
[edit] clonal colony
- a group of plants (or a fungal mycelium) that has grown in a given location, the "individuals" originating vegetatively and not sexually from a single ancestor; the colonies often spread undergound and may also be capable of sexual reproduction, such as cattail[C]
[edit] compound fruit
- a fruit that develops from several ovaries in either a single flower (ex, raspberry) or multiple flowers (ex, pineapple, fig)[C]
[edit] compound inflorescence
- a collection of two or more simple inflorescences aggregated together. e.g., panicle[D]
[edit] compound leaf
- a leaf with a fully subdivided blade, each leaflet of the blade separated along a main or secondary vein[A]
[edit] cone
[edit] cordate
- heart-shaped with the norch away from the stem (in terms of describing the base of a leaf)[A]
- heart-shaped, stem attaches to cleft[E]
[edit] corm
- a short, vertical, swollen underground stem of a plant (usually one of the monocots) that serves as a storage organ to enable the plant to survive winter or other adverse conditions such as drought[B]
[edit] corolla
- the overall structure of the petals of a flower taken as a group within the calyx; normally the corolla is the most conspicuous part of a flower and of a bright color other than green[C]
[edit] cortex
[edit] corymb
- a racemose (see raceme) inflorescence that is flat-topped or convex because the outer pedicels are progressively longer than the inner ones (see also umbel)[D]
[edit] crenate
[edit] cuneate
[edit] cuspidate
- with a sharp, elongated, rigid tip; tipped with a cusp (used to describe leaf tips)[A]
[edit] cyme
- a class of determinate inflorescences characterized by the terminal flower blooming first[D]
[edit] D
[edit] deciduous
- "temporary" or "tending to fall off" (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off); typically used in reference to trees or shrubs that lose their leaves seasonally[C]
[edit] decurrent
[edit] dehisce
- to burst or split open at definite places, discharging seeds, or pollen, or other contents, as the ripe pods of some plants[B]
[edit] dehiscent
- Of or pertaining to the rupture of the reproductive organs in plants, leading to their diffusion in the air or deposition on the ground[B]
[edit] deltoid
- a triangular leaf shape where the stem attaches to the side or leg of the triangle[E]
[edit] dentate
[edit] denticulate
- finely toothed[A]
[edit] determinate
- the first flowers of the inflorescence to open are at the top end of inflorescence or terminal, i.e., the top flower blooms first[D]
[edit] digitate
- divided into finger-like lobes[E]
[edit] dioecious
- having male and female reproductive organs different plants (as opposed to monoecious)[C]
[edit] doubly toothed
[edit] drift seed
- seed of certain tropical plants which can be found on distant beaches after travelling great distances through ocean currents (aka sea-bean)[C]
[edit] dry fruit
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[edit] drupe
- any fruit with a soft fleshy exterior surrounding a hard pit or stone containing the seed[7]
- a stone fruit[B]
[edit] drupelet
- the small, individual drupes that form an aggregate fruit such as the blackberry and raspberry[8]
[edit] E
[edit] elliptic
- oval, with a short point or no point[E]
[edit] emarginate
- indented, with a shallow notch at the tip (used to describe leaf tips)[A]
[edit] emergent plant
- one which grows in water but which pierces the surface so that it is partially in air, such as cattail[C]
[edit] entire
[edit] epidermis
- the outermost layer of cells covering the leaves and young parts of a plant[C]
[edit] even-pinnate
[edit] exfoliation
- the loss of leaves (or, in some cases, pieces of bark) from a plant[C]
[edit] F
[edit] falcate
- sickle-shaped[E]
[edit] farina
- a waxy, whitish powder[A]
[edit] farinose
[edit] fibrous root system
- the opposite of a tap root system, usually formed by thin, moderately branching roots growing from the stem (also called adventitious root system)[C]
[edit] filament
[edit] flabellate
- semi-circular, or fan-like[E]
[edit] floccose
- with flocks of soft, woolly hairs, which tend to rub off[A]
[edit] flower
[edit] flower stalk
- see peduncle
[edit] follicle
- a type of primitive dry fruit produced by certain flowering plants[B]
- a dry fruit which dehisces along one rupture site in order to release seeds, such as in larkspur, magnolia, banksia, peony and milkweed[C]
[edit] forb
- any non-woody flowering plant that is not a grass[B]
[edit] frond
- the leaf-like structure of a fern or alga, colloquially applied to the leaves of palms, cycads, and plants with pinnately compound leaves[C]
[edit] fructification
[edit] fruit
- the ripened ovary—together with seeds—of a flowering plant[C]
- the part of a plant, often edible, often colourful/colorful and fragrant, produced from a floral ovary after fertilization and containing one or more seeds[B]
[edit] G
[edit] gall
- a blister or tumor-like growth found on the surface of plants, caused by burrowing of insect larvae into the living tissues, especially that of the common oak gall wasp (Cynips quercusfolii)[B]
[edit] glabrous
- smooth, not hairy[A]
[edit] glaucous
- with a whitish bloom; covered with a very fine, bluish-white powder[A]
[edit] glutinous
[edit] groundcover
- the layer of vegetation below the shrub layer[C]
- a plant used for the purpose of growing over an area of ground to hide it or to protect it from erosion or drought[C]
[edit] H
[edit] hastate
- shaped like an halberd and with the basal lobes pointing outward (in terms of describing the base of a leaf)[A]
- shaped like a spear point, with flaring pointed lobes at the base[E]
[edit] head
- a dense, indeterminate inflorescence of sessile or subsessile flowers crowded on a compound receptacle; sometimes called a capitulum or pseudanthium, characteristic of the Asteraceae[D]
[edit] herb
- a plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season[B]
[edit] herbaceous
- see herbaceous plant
[edit] herbaceous plant
- a plant whose stem is not woody and does not persist beyond each growing season[B]
[edit] hermaphrodite
- a flower that has both staminate (male, pollen-producing) and carpelate (female, seed-producing) parts that are self fertile or self pollenizing[C]
[edit] hirsute
- with rather rough or stiff hairs[A]
[edit] hispid
- with rigid, bristly hairs[A]
[edit] hispidulous
[edit] hoary
- with a fine, close grayish-white pubescence[A]
[edit] husk
- the protective outer covering of a seed, fruit or vegetable[C]
[edit] I
[edit] indehiscent
[edit] indeterminate
- the first flowers to bloom are the ones at or near the bottom of the inflorescenes, that is the first flowers start blooming at the bottom of the stem or inside a cluster of flowers[D]
[edit] inflorescence
- a flower cluster[B]
- the way individual flowers are arranged on the plant, in which single or multiple flowers develop on the same stem; there are two fundamental terms used to describe the nature of inflorescences: determinate and indeterminate[D]
[edit] J
[edit] K
[edit] L
[edit] lamina
- leaf blade[A]
[edit] lanate
- with woolly hairs[A]
[edit] lance-shaped
- long, wider in the middle[E]
[edit] lanceolate
- long, wider in the middle[E]
[edit] lanose
- with woolly hairs[A]
[edit] leaf
- an organ of a plant typically divided into a flattened portion (the blade) and a narrow stalk (the petiole) and serving as the principal site of photosynthesis and transpiration[B]
[edit] leaf shape
[edit] leaflet
- a part of a compound leaf; a leaflet may resemble a complete leaf, but it is not borne on a stem as a leaf is, but rather on a vein of the whole leaf[C]
[edit] leaves
- see leaf
[edit] legume
- a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these plants, marked by their simple dry fruit (commonly known as a "pod") which develops from a simple carpel and usually dehisces (opens along a seam) on two sides[C]
[edit] lenticel
- a spongy area present in the cork surfaces of the stems, roots, and other parts of vascular plants which allow for the exchange of gases between the internal tissues and atmosphere to occur across the periderm, which would otherwise prevent this exchange of gases[C]
[edit] liana
- a tropical climbing woody vine[B]
[edit] lignotuber
- a starchy swelling on underground stems or roots which some plants use as a life support system in case of fire or animal damage; these plants are able to sprout back from buds on the surface of the lignotuber (a process known as coppicing)[C]
[edit] linear
- long and very narrow[E]
[edit] lobate
[edit] lobe
- protuberances in the leaf margin, indicated by indentations between the lobes that do not reach to the center[A]
[edit] lobed
[edit] M
[edit] midrib
[edit] monoecious
[edit] mucro
- a sword, or the point of a sword[B]
[edit] mucronate
- abruptly tipped with a small short point, as a continuation of the midrib; tipped with a mucro (used to describe leaf tips)[A]
[edit] mucronulate
[edit] N
[edit] nut
- a simple dry fruit with one seed (rarely two) in which the ovary wall becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity, and where the seed remains unattached or unfused with the ovary wall[C]
[edit] O
[edit] obcordate
- inversely heart-shaped, deeply notched at the top (used to describe leaf tips)[A]
[edit] oblanceolate
- having a shape where the top is wider than bottom[E]
[edit] oblique
- slanting[A]
[edit] oblong
- having an elongated form with slightly parallel sides[E]
[edit] obovate
- a teardrop leaf shape where the stem attaches to the tapering point[E]
[edit] obtuse
- rounded or blunt[A]
[edit] odd-pinnate
[edit] opposite
- leaf attachments paired at each node; decussate if, as typical, each successive pair is rotated 90° going along the stem; or distichous if not rotated, but two-ranked (in the same plane)[A]
[edit] orbicular
- circular[E]
[edit] ovary
[edit] ovate
- oval, egg-shaped, with a tapering point[E]
[edit] ovoid
- egg-shaped; shaped like an oval[B]
[edit] ovule
- the structure in a plant that develops into a seed after fertilization[B]
[edit] P
[edit] palmate
[edit] panicle
- a branched, indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate (having short floral stalks) flowers on the secondary branches[D]
[edit] papillae
- minute, nipple-shaped protuberances[A]
[edit] papillate
[edit] papillose
[edit] pappus
- the element in a composite flower of the individual disk and ray flowers that surrounds the flower structure, in the same manner at the base as calyx does in a non-compound flower; usually like bristles, teeth or scales and are too diminutive to discern without some type of magnification device (from the Ancient Greek word pappus meaning bristle)[C]
[edit] pedate
- palmate, with cleft lobes[E]
[edit] pedicel
- flower stalk[D]
[edit] pedicellate
- having short floral stalks[D]
[edit] peduncle
- a stalk supporting an inflorescence[C]
[edit] peltate
- a rounded leaf shape where the stem attaches underneath[E]
[edit] pentamerous
- in five parts[B]
[edit] perennial
- a plant that lives for more than two years[C]
[edit] perfect flower
[edit] perfoliate
- paired leaves which fuse around the stem[9]
[edit] perianth
[edit] pericarp
- the outermost layer of a ripe fruit or ovary[B]
- the tissue surrounding a seed that develops from the ovary wall of the flower[C]
[edit] paripinnate
[edit] petal
- a highly modified leaf; one member or part of the corolla of a flower[C], usually brightly colored[B]
[edit] petiole
[edit] phloem
- material in the veins of the leaf which usually moves sap out, the latter containing the glucose produced by photosynthesis in the leaf[A]
[edit] pilose
- with soft, clearly separated hairs[A]
[edit] pinnate
- having two rows of branches, lobes, leaflets, or veins arranged on each side of a common axis[B]
- an arrangement of discrete structures (such as leaflets, veins, lobes, branches, or appendages) arising at multiple points along a common axis[C]
[edit] pinnatisect
- cut into lobes on both sides of the midrib to or almost to the midrib[10]
[edit] pistil
[edit] pith
- the soft spongy substance in the center of the stems of many plants and trees[B]
[edit] pollen
- a fine granular substance produced in the anthers of flowers[B] which produce the male gametes (sperm cells) of seed plants[C]
[edit] puberulent
- with fine, minute hairs[A]
[edit] puberulous
- with fine, minute hairs[A]
[edit] pubescence
- a covering of soft, short, errect hairs[A]
[edit] pubescent
- covered with erect hairs (especially soft and short ones)[A]
[edit] punctate
[edit] Q
[edit] R
[edit] raceme
- an unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate (having short floral stalks) flowers along the axis; compare with spike[D]
[edit] reniform
- kidney-shaped but rounder and broader than long[A]
[edit] rhizoid
- a structure in plants and fungi that functions like a root in support or absorption; in vascular plants they are often called root hairs[C]
[edit] rhizome
- a usually underground, horizontal stem of a plant that often sends out roots and shoots from its nodes; they are often referred to as creeping rootstalks, or rootstocks[C]
[edit] rhomboid
- diamond-shaped[E]
[edit] root
- the part of a plant, generally underground, that absorbs water and nutrients[B]
[edit] rosette
- a circular arrangement of leaves[C]
[edit] rosulate
[edit] rounded
- curving shape[A]
[edit] rugose
[edit] S
[edit] sagittate
[edit] scabrous
- rough to the touch[A]
[edit] scabrid
- rough to the touch[A]
[edit] scape
- flowering stems, usually leafless, rising from the crown or roots of a plant,[11] as in the stemless violets, the bloodroot, and the like[B]
[edit] scorpioid cyme
- a cyme which unfolds like a coil, the way a scorpion's tall unfolds from under its body, such as Forget-me-not[D]
[edit] scurfy
[edit] seed
- a small embryonic plant enclosed in a covering (called the seed coat), usually with some stored food[C]
- a fertilized grain, initially encased in a fruit, which may grow into a mature plant[B]
[edit] seedling
- a young plant grown from seed[B]
[edit] sepal
- components of the calyx, located at the base of the flower; these modified leaves usually function as protection for the petals while in bud stage; occasionally, sepals will be colored, but they are usually green[12]
[edit] sericeous
- silky appearance through fine, straight and appressed (lying close and flat) hairs[A]
[edit] serotiny
- the behaviour of some plant species that retain their non-dormant seeds in a cone or woody fruit for up to several years, but release them after exposure to fire[C]
[edit] serrate
[edit] serrated
[edit] serrulate
[edit] sessile
- attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk[B]
- without a stalk, as in flowers (pedicel) or leaves (petiole) that grow directly from the stem or peduncle[C]
[edit] shoot
- fresh new plant growth that can include stems, flowering stems with flower buds, and leaves[C]
[edit] shrub
- a woody plant smaller than a tree, and usually with several stems from the same root[B]
[edit] silky
- with adpressed, soft and straight pubescence[A]
[edit] sinuate
[edit] softwood
- the wood from conifers; in addition "softwood" is an adjective applied to the trees that produce such wood; the wood of softwoods is softer, on average, than that of hardwoods, but only on average - the wood of yews, for example, is much harder than many hardwoods[C]
[edit] solitary inflorescence
- with only one flower in the inflorescence such as many Tulips, Trillium[D]
[edit] spadix
- a stalk with flowers densely arranged around it, enclosed or accompanied by a spathe, characteristic of the Araceae[D]
[edit] spathulate
- spoon-shaped[E]
[edit] spatulate
- spoon-shaped[E]
[edit] spike
- an unbranched, indeterminate inflorescence with sessile flowers arranged along the axis, compare with raceme[D]
- an inflorescence where the flowers are arranged on a single axis and have no pedicels (stems that hold flowers); the flowers are joined close to the stem in a long row[D]
[edit] spine
- the ends of branches or leafs, that have been modified into rounded, hard structures with sharp ends. They are often also called thorns, which are reduced, sharp pointed stems[13]
- needle-like structure[C]
[edit] spiny
[edit] spur
- an elongated appendage of certain sepals[14]
- a structure that exists in certain plants consisting of an elongated sepal at its back edge[15]
[edit] stamen
[edit] staminode
- an often rudimentary, sterile or abortive stamen which does not produce pollen; staminodes are frequently inconspicuous and stamen-like, usually occurring at the inner whorl of the flower, but are also sometimes long enough to protrude from the corolla; sometimes, the staminodes are modified to produce nectar, as in the Witch Hazel[C]
[edit] stellate
- with star-shaped hairs[A]
[edit] stelliform
- with star-shaped hairs[A]
[edit] stem
- the above-ground stalk (technically axis) of a vascular plant, and certain anatomically similar, below-ground organs such as rhizomes, bulbs, tubers, and corms[B]
[edit] stipe
- the stem of a mushroom[B]
- a supportive structure that may be the stem-like part of the thallus of a seaweed or a true leaf stem, as in ferns[C]
[edit] stipule
- basal appendage of a typical leaf of a flowering plant, usually appearing paired beside the petiole although sometimes absent or highly modified[B]
[edit] stoma
- one of the tiny pores in the epidermis of a leaf or stem through which gases and water vapor pass[B]
[edit] stomata
[edit] strigose
- with appressed, sharp, straight and stiff hairs[A]
[edit] subulate
- awl-shaped with a tapering point[E]
[edit] succulent
[edit] T
[edit] taproot
- a long tapering root possessed by many plants (such as carrots and dandelions)[B]
[edit] tendril
- a specialized stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape that is used by climbing plants for support and attachment, generally by twining around whatever it touches[C]
[edit] tepal
- a term usually used when all segments of the perianth are of similar shape and color, or undifferentiated into petals and sepals; when the petals and sepals look the same they are called tepals
[edit] ternate
[edit] terrestrial plant
- a plant that grows on land, as opposed to aquatic (living in water), epiphytic (living on trees, but not parasitic) and lithophytes (living in or on rocks)[C]
[edit] thorn
[edit] thyrse
- compact, densely packed inflorescence that has an indeterminate main axis but is laterally determinate[D]
[edit] tomentose
[edit] tree
- a large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age)[B]
- any plant that is reminiscent of the above but not classified as a tree in the strict botanical sense: for example the banana "tree"[B]
[edit] trichomes
- "hairs" on plants[A]
[edit] trifoliate
- divided into three leaflets[E]
[edit] tripinnate
[edit] truncate
[edit] trunk
- the main structural member of a tree that is supported by and directly attached to the roots and which in turn supports the branches[C]
[edit] tuber
- a fleshy, thickened under-ground stem of a plant, usually containing stored starch, as for example a potato or arrowroot[B]
[edit] tubercle
- a warty prominence[A]
[edit] tuberculate
[edit] tuberous root
- a modified lateral root, enlarged to function as a storage organ--it is thus different in origin but similar in function and coarse appearance to a tuber; examples of plants with notable roots include the sweet potato, cassava and Dahlia[C]
[edit] twig
- a small terminal branch section that may bear leaves, buds and sometimes the flowers and fruit of plants[C]
[edit] U
[edit] umbel
- a type of raceme with a short axis and multiple floral pedicels of equal length that appear to arise from a common point, characteristic of the Apiaceae; A compressed cyme is called umbelliform if it resembles an umbel[D]
[edit] umbelliform
[edit] underground stems
- modified plant structures that derive from stem tissue but exist under the soil surface; examples include bulbs, corms, rhizomes, stolons and tubers[C]
[edit] unifoliate
- with a single leaf[E]
[edit] V
[edit] vascular bundle
- a part of the transport system in vascular plants including xylem, phloem and supporting and protective tissues[C]
[edit] vascular plant
- any plant possessing vascular tissue (xylem and phloem), including ferns, conifers, and flowering plants[B]
[edit] vascular tissue
- the xylem, phloem, and associated tissues in a vascular plant[B]
[edit] veins
- the vascular tissue of the leaf and are located in the spongy layer of the mesophyll, composed of xylem and phloem[A]
[edit] venation
- vein pattern[A]
[edit] vernation
- the formation of new leaves or fronds; also the arrangement of leaves in a bud[C]
[edit] verrucose
- warted, with warty outgrowths[A]
[edit] verticil
- an inflorescence where the flowers are arranged in clusters around the nodes in whorls such as many plants in the Mint family[D]
[edit] villous
- with long and soft hairs, usually curved[A]
[edit] viscid
- covered with thick, sticky secretions[A]
[edit] viscous
- covered with thick, sticky secretions[A]
[edit] W
[edit] whorl
- a circle of two or more leaves, flowers, or other organs, about the same part or joint of a stem[B]
[edit] whorled
- three or more leaves attach at each point or node on the stem. As with opposite leaves, successive whorls may or may not be decussate, rotated by half the angle between the leaves in the whorl (i.e., successive whorls of three rotated 60°, whorls of four rotated 45°, etc). Opposite leaves may appear whorled near the tip of the stem[A]
[edit] woolly
- with long, soft and tortuous or matted hairs[A]
[edit] X
[edit] xylem
[edit] Y
[edit] Z
[edit] Sources
[edit] Individual Citations
- ^ Wikipedia:Fruit#Aggregate fruit
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annual_plant
- ^ http://www.lesslawn.com/pages/glossary.html
- ^ http://ohioline.osu.edu/b866/b866_16.html
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biennial_plant
- ^ a b http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bract
- ^ http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/stone_fruit
- ^ Wikipedia:Drupe
- ^ http://www.boldweb.com/greenweb/glossary.htm
- ^ http://www.weeds.asn.au/gloss/new_gloss2.html
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scape_%28botany%29
- ^ http://www.earthandtable.com/glossary/plants/anatomy/inflorescence.html
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spine_%28botany%29
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spur_%28disambiguation%29
- ^ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spur_%28biology%29
[edit] Mass Citation A
- All definitions that use the [A] citation were copied or derived from the Wikipedia article Leaf licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[edit] Mass Citation B
- All definitions that use the [B] citation were copied or derived from the Wiktionary article by the same name as the definition to which they refer. Wiktionary text is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[edit] Mass Citation C
- All definitions that use the [C] citation were copied or derived from the Wikipedia article by the same name as the definition to which they refer. Wikipedia text is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[edit] Mass Citation D
- All definitions that use the [D] citation were copied or derived from the Wikipedia article Inflorescence licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[edit] Mass Citation E
- All definitions that use the [E] citation were copied or derived from the Wikipedia article Leaf shape licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
